Your roommate seems to feel much more pain than you do when the two of you are working out together. Which of the following may be an explanation for this phenomenon?
A) Your roommate may be stimulating more pain receptors than you are.
B) Your roommate may have fewer endogenous opioid receptors than you do.
C) Your roommate may have more nociceptors than you do.
D) Your roommate is working out way harder than you are.

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Endogenous opioid receptors help modulate pain perception. If your roommate has fewer of these receptors, they may experience more pain than you do during workouts.

Your Roommate Seems to Feel Much More Pain Than You